Five focusing steps
Identify the constraint, exploit it, subordinate everything else, elevate it, then repeat.
- Use when
- A visible bottleneck: queues grow in front of one step, role or system.
- Avoid when
- Demand is well below capacity everywhere; there is no stable constraint.
- Source
- Goldratt, The Goal (1984)
- Level
- B · established practice
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